Welcome to the castle - it gets worse here every day | 2026 Celebrity Traitors Thread 4 [TV Pace]

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The story so far (as at end of episode 4)

Traitors (still active)
Maya Jama
James Acaster (recruited)
Professor Hannah Fry (recruited)

Faithful

James Blunt
Jerry Hall
Joanne McNally
Joe Lycett
King Kenny
Michael Sheen
Miranda Hart
Sebastian Croft
Sharon Rooney

Up for Murder
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Rob Beckett
Romesh Ranganathan
RossKemp (full name)

Murdered
Amol Rajan
Bella Ramsey

Banished
Richard E Grant (Traitor)
Myha’la
Julie Hesmondhalgh

Me too

Miranda is just wonderful.

I reckon it's just being edited to make him look suspicious.

Especially because they've got to then say 'Am I boring you?', which makes no sense when theyve both been yawning non stop themselves!

Sharon insisting Kenny leave the Library could be seen as suspicious in that case. He could certainly spin it that way.

A lot of them looked like they really didn’t want to enter that room. And dragged Kenny out as though they were saving him! It was like they knew something was going to happen in there!

True.

I think some of them know that James A is a traitor. No point voting him out as they will just recruit someone else they then have to find.

Maya was yawnsmiling which was too obvious.

I wonder if the banished go absolutely immediately to Ed in the library. It looks like it, with Joe. No time for them to collect themselves and get their emotions even slightly in check

What is Joe wearing? He looks like a My Little Pony.

Joe has them all as faithful :)

"They're never going to find them" 😂

That was an interesting reaction. It seems James A and Maya aren’t coming under suspicious.

Or they weren't...until the yawnathon!

But they’re all wearing different outfits, though, which suggests they at least have time to change before they go to see Ed…?

I was hoping Maya would say "am I boring you James?"

I found Miranda’s reaction to Joe leaving quite touching. She seemed to have a real ‘moment’.

oh do they? I wasn't sure about the outfits. It made it look like they went straight through a corridor to Ed, but it would be kinder if they get them some time to change and recombobulate

I think I missed it, was there actual scent in the bottle? If so, wouldn’t that attract suspicion? 🤔

She did, but then cynical me noted that was the second time this episode she’d mentioned her illness and something in me wanted to check if the book where she talks about it at length is now out in paperback…

Hannah got changed and had her hair done before her chat with Ed.

Even though she mentioned it, you can’t guarantee the producers would include it in the Final Cut. She was really ill, bedridden I believe for ages, due to Lymes disease, so I think she’s relishing having some fun and games.

I still haven’t stopped yawning! The editing of James and Maya yawning was brilliant. I’m not sure that Ross actually clocked them… heavily edited that scene I think. Do we think anyone yawns?

I’ve not read her book @Silverbirchleaf but yes, I’ve seen something like that. Doctors took 33 years to diagnose her with Lyme and she has ME/CFS too I believe

But for all we know she might have mentioned it twenty times already and the producers finally put in one mention instead of the twenty?

I'm cynical too.